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I ditched Spotify and set up my own music stack

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275 points starkparker | 1 comments | 04 Sep 25 22:47 UTC | HN request time: 0.199s | source
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dankwizard ◴[04 Sep 25 23:59 UTC] No.45133610[source]▶
Ha, this is the guy that got absolutely butchered in his Reddit post [1] about the same link. OP has extensive history in the piracy subreddits and believes piracy is not theft.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/comments/1n87xho/why_i_d...

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BLKNSLVR ◴[05 Sep 25 00:16 UTC] No.45133703[source]▶
> believes piracy is not theft

That's true by definition isn't it? Piracy (Internet piracy, since that's the context) is copyright infringement, not theft.

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1. 8fingerlouie ◴[05 Sep 25 08:52 UTC] No.45136423[source]▶
It may not be theft, but it is stealing :

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Stealing: the action or offence of taking another person's property without permission or legal right and without intending to return it; theft.

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Regardless if there is anything physical missing, you're still obtaining something for which you don't have the ownership rights, therefore another persons property.

And somewhere there's a starving artist that would get $0.25 per purchase that now gets nothing, so you could argue that you're stealing from the artist.